Welcome to our Open Access Compendium “Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion” published on the occasion of ICCHP-AAATE 2022.
The first Open Access Compendium was published for the ICCHP 2020 conference and its added value became immediately clear, just as the wish to continue what hope-fully will become a long series of significant resource publications for the community of AT and accessibility researchers and wider stakeholder.
That first edition which came under the title “Future Perspectives of AT, eAccessi-bility and eInclusion” included 29 peer reviewed papers. The one we present today in-cludes 78 contributions. that together present a 360° view on AT, Accessibility, ICT with and for people with disabilities and older adults.
The decision of AAATE and ICCHP to join forces for the organization of a major conference in 2022, provided an excellent opportunity for innovation. It was decided to create and offer a new venue for researchers and practitioners in assistive and access technologies, to showcase their work and mingle together.
After almost two years of living through a pandemic, during which AAATE 2021 had to be canceled and ICCHP 2020 was held online, the best way forward was to merge the individual bi-annual conferences for 2022, providing a single platform for exchanging ideas, stimulating conversation, and facilitating networking– at the Polo Territoriale of the Politecnico di Milano in Lecco, close to the most beautiful shores of Lake Como.
So, the Compendium got a brand-new name, highlighting this new, additional per-spective. Its scope was broadened to include topics closer to the AAATE community and the conference themes. Each of the extended abstracts submitted underwent a rig-orous review by at least 3 experts, making up the selection presented in this second edition.
Representing a multidisciplinary, multifocal approach was made easier by bringing the AAATE and ICCHP communities together to explore the common threads linking policy, practice, research and advocacy for people living with disabilities, as well as working together for a more equitable, and inclusive future.
The ICCHP-AAATE 2022 joint conference was open to everyone interested in new and original ways to put technology at the service of people living with a disability. Together with the traditional Young Researchers’ Consortium, this joint conference was a unique ecosystem for networking, exchange and connecting researchers and de-velopers in all our field(s) to a stronger community.
This universal approach that has characterized the conference is also reflected in the different publications available: Technological-scientific conference proceedings pub-lished with Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science; the scientific, more open and broader designed Open Access Compendium “Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion”; and the ICCHP-AAATE Book of Abstracts collecting all submitted ab-stracts and additionally the descriptions of policy sessions and panel discussions, edu-cational sessions; and the brand new Innovation Area with product presentations, demonstrations and poster sessions.
We hope this edition of our Open Access Compendium delivers memories, knowledge and also new insights to you – and is an incentive to join our future confer-ences.
